Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-05-16

move around the hotels with sleek hats
always sleek hats-and patronlziug afr,
and unaccountable interest about your
welfare and entertainment. You are
fool if you cannot see through II. They
want your money.
In Chestnut street, Philadelphia, while
was living in that city. an incident oc-
CURED which was familiar To us there. ln
Chestnut street Young man went int"
gambling saloon, lost all his property,
then
BLEW HIS BRAINS OFT,
and before the blood was washed from the
floor by the maid the comrades were shut
fling cards again. You see there Is more
mercy in the highwayman for the helated
traveller OH whose body he heaps the stones,
there is more mercy in the frost for the
flower that it kills, there is more mercy in
the hurricane that shivcrs the steamer on
the Long Island coast, than there Is mercy
in the heart of gambler Tor his victim.
In the third watch of the night, also
drunkenness does its worst. The drinking
Will he respectable at eight O'Clock in the
evening, little flushed at nine, talEatlvc
and garrulOuS at ten, at eleven blasphem
Gus, ut twelve the hat falls oil, at one the
man falls TO the floor asking for more
drink. Strewn through the drinking
saloons of the city, fathers, brothers, hus-
bands, sons is good aS you are by nature,
perhaps better.
In the high circles of society it iS huShed
up. 4 merchant prince, if he gets noisy
and uncomfortable, is taken by his fellow
jewellers, who try to get him To bed, OF
take him home, where he falls flat in the
entry Do not wake up the children.
They have had disgrace enough. Do not
let them know it, Hush il up. But
sometimes it cannot he hushed up when
the rum touches the brain and the man
becomes thoroughly Irenzied. Such an
one came home, having been absent for
some time, and during his absence his
wife had died, and she lay in the next
room pr, pared for the obsequies, and he
went in and dragged her by the locks, and
shook her out Of her shrOud, and pitched
her out of the window.
Oh! when the rum touches the brain
YOU CANNOT HUSH IT Up.
My friends, you see all around about
you the need that something radical be
done. You do not see the worst. In the
midnight meetings at London great
multitude have been saved. We want a
few hundred Christian men and women to
come down from the highest circless of
society to toll among these wandering and
destitute ones, and kindle up Il light in
the dark alley, even the g1ldneSs of
heaven.
Do not 20 wrapped IN your fine iurs and
from your well-lilled tables with the idea
that piouS talk is going TO stop the gnaw-
ing OF an empty stomach or to warm
stOckingless feet. Take bread take raj
mcnt, take medicine as well as take prayer.
There is great deal OF common sense i'll
what the poor woman SAID to the city mis-
sonary when he was telling her how she
ought to love God and serve Him. oh"
she said, "if You were as poor and cold ~
am, and rs hungry, you could think OF
nothing else.
4 grcat deal of what il called Christian
work goes for nothing for the simple reason
it is not practical; a. after the battle of
Antietam man got out of IN ambulance
with bug of tracts, and he went distrib-
uting the tracts, and George Stuart, one Oi
the best Christian men III this country
said to him: "What are You distributing
| tracts for now? There are three thousand
men bleeding To death. Bind up their
wounds, and then distribute the tracts. y
| We want more common -srnse III Chris
tian work, taking the bread of this life in
one hand, and the creed of the next life in
the other. No such inapt work as that
] 1. Al,
| the last war, went into Il hospital with
tracts, and coming 10 the bed of man
whose legs had been amputated, gave him
a tract on dancing! rejoice before God
| that never are sympathetic words uttered,
never prayer offered never a Christian
alms-giyIng INDUCED in but it * blessed.
There is a place i'll Switzerland, ! have
been told, where the uttcrance Ol one word
will bring back a score of chc0es; and ]
have to tell you this morning that sym
pathetic word, kind word, a generous
word, helpful word uttered in the dark
places of the town will bring back ten
thousand echoes from all the thrones 0t
heaven.
Are there in this assembIage this morn
ing those who know hy experience
THE TRAGEDIES ~ THE THIRD WATCH
of the night? am not here to thrust you
back with one hard word. Take the ban
dagc from your bruised soul, and put on IT
the soothing salve of Christ's Gospel and
of Gods compassion. Many have come.
see others coming to God this morning,
tired of the sinful life Cry up the news
to heaven. Set all the bells ringing.
Spread the banquet under the arches. Let
the crowned heads come down aud SIT at
the jubilee. tell you there is more de-
light in heaven over one man that gets re
formed by the grace of God than over
ninety and nine that never got OF the track.
could give you the history in a min
ute of one Of the hest friends | ever had.
Outside of my own family, ! never h Il u
better friend He welcomed me To my
home at the West. He was of splendid
personal appearance, hut he had an ardOr
of soul and warmth of affection that made
me love him like a brother. | saw men
coming ont of the saloons and gambling
hells, and they surrounded my friend, and
they took him at the weak point, his social
nature, and saw him going down, and
had a fair talk with him-fOr | never yet
saw man You could not talk with on the
subject of his habits, if you talked with
him in the right way. ! said to him:
why don't you give up your bad habits
and become Christian ] remember
now Just how he looked, leaning over his
counter. as he replied: IL wish could.
Oh, sir. should like to be Christian,
but have gone 40 far astray | can't get
back
So the time went on. After a while
THE DAY or SICKNESS CANE.
was summoned to his sick bed. | has
tened 1t took mo buta very few moments
to get there. was surprised a. went in.
/ saw him in his ordinary dress, fully dress
ed, lying OH top Of the bed | gave him
my hand, and he seized 1t cOnvulsively
and said: "Oh, how glad am to see you,
Sit down there ! sat down and he said:
Mr. Tamage, just where you sit now my
mother sat last night She has been dead
twenty years. Now, | don't want you to
think am ont OF my mind, or that | am
superstitious; but, sir, she sat there last
night Just - certainly as you sit there now
the same can and anTOn and sDertacles